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E. T. GIBSON.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4, 1909.

Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

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EDWARD TINKHAM GIBSON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Application filed June 4, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD TINKHAM GIBsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dolls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of toy figures which are formed by sewing together pieces of cloth bearing pictured representations of the component parts of the outer aspect of the head and of the body covering of an animate object, and then stuffing the sacklike formation with some suitable material. In these toy figures the stuffing is necessarily carried to the bottom margin of the cloth formation, and when the lower section of the formation bears a pictured representation of a dress skirt design the skirt designs forms a part of the sack which holds the stuffing.

The object of my invention is to provide a construction by which the skirt design is not included in the sack-like formation but left to hang loosely from the latter.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front view of the doll. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side View of the same. Fig. 4 is a view of a vertical section of the doll on the line XX of Fig. 2, but does not show a leg. Fig. 5 is a view of a vertical section of the doll on the line XX of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a view of the inner surface of the back-forming piece of cloth. Fig. 7 is a view of the inner surface of the front-forming piece of cloth, and Fig. 8 is a perspective view from the front of a fragment of the doll.

A represents the front-forming piece of cloth, and B the back-forming piece of cloth, which are sewed together along their top and side margins to form a part of the doll. The said piece A bears on its outer surface a pic tured representation of a face A (Fig. 1), torso coverings A and the front section A of a skirt design; and the said piece B bears on its outer surface a pictured representation of the back covering of a head B, torso coverings B and the back section B of a skirt design.

0, Fig. 6, and D, Fig. 7, are pieces of cloth which are secured (by stitching or by means of glue) along their upper margins to the inside surfaces of the pieces B and A respec- Specification of Letters Patent.

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tively, to form when sewed together along their side margins as in Fig. 8 a tubular formation which forms (see Figs. 4c and 5) with the portions of the said front-forming and back-forming pieces which are above the line of attachment of the said pieces C and D to the said pieces A and B a sack-like formation for holding stuffing material E; and the lower end of the said tubular formation is adapted to be closed, by means of stitching, as in Figs. 4, 5, and l, to retain the stufiing in the sack-like formation.

By this construction the object of the invention is accomplished and the skirt design hangs loosely from the sack-like formation.

To the lower end of the closed sack-like formation the dolls legs F and F are attached.

In this specification I employ the words front-forming piece of cloth, and backforming piece of cloth to designate parts which respectively form the front and back sections of a part of the doll, and while each of these last mentioned sections is preferably formed from a single piece of cloth it must be understood that the front-forming piece of cloth mentioned in this specification and in the claims maybe formed by sewing together two or more pieces of cloth, and that the back-forming piece of cloth mentioned in this specification and in the claims may be formed in the same way.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A doll comprising a frontforming piece of cloth and a back-forming piece of cloth stitched together at their top and side margins, and a tubular formation of cloth attached to the inside surfaces of said frontforming and back-forming pieces; said front-forming piece of cloth bearing pictured representations of torso coverings and the front section of a skirt design, and said back-forming piece of cloth bearing pictured representations of torso coverings and the back section of a skirt design, the said tubular formation being adapted to be closed to prevent the exit downward of stufiing material placed between the said front-forming and back-forming pieces of cloth.

2. In a doll comprising a front-forming piece of cloth having a thoracic or chest portion, a waist portion, and a skirt portion, and also comprising a back-forming piece Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

of cloth having a thoracic or chest portion, a Waist portion,- and a skirt portion, the said pieces of cloth being stitched together at prevent the exit downward of stufiing material placed between the said fr0nt-f0r1n ing and back-forming pieces of cloth.

their side margins, a cloth device attached EDWARD TlN KHAM GIBSON. t0 the inner surfaces of said pieces of cloth Vitnesses:

adjacent to-the uppervmargins of their said \VILLIAM PnAnsoN, skirt portions and adapted to be closed to i TQH. MAR'rix. 

